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I remember writing obj-c naturally by hand. Before swift was even a twinkle in tim cooks eye. One of my favorite languages to program in I had a lot of fun writing ios apps back in the day it seems like


I member obj c, using it was a profound experience, it was so different from other languages I felt like an anthropologist.

Also, fun names like `makeFunctionNameInCommentLongAndDescriptiveWithNaturalLanguage:(NSLanguage *)language`


What an odd thing to ask it. I installed claude code and ran it from my terminal. Just asked it to simply give me a node based rest API with X endpoints with these jobs, and then I told it to write the unreal engine c++ to consume those endpoints. 2500 lines of code later, it worked.


I haven't opened up xcode in years (thank god) I suppose this was inevitable. They have to keep up


This is exactly why I don't play the lottery


Where do you think the electricity comes from?


It depends. Fossil fuels are still a major source, which needs to be replaced as soon as possible with something else (where "something else" probably means some combination of solar, wind, and nuclear).

What I'm saying is that in our long term planning, we shouldn't be thinking "we have X terawatts of fossil fuel production capacity so we need to build out X terawatts of non-fossil-fuel production capacity to replace it (including storage, as needed)" We should be thinking "We probably need ~2X terawatts of additional production because we're replacing fossil fuels for electricity generation in addition to transitioning to electricity-based heating and transportation."


The same place hamburger, bacon, and keebler cookies.

elves


Literally nothing


People should also stop eating crap food and clogging up our 'public health' but yet mcdonalds isn't banned


I'm not saying McDonald's is healthy but there's clearly a difference between eating a cheeseburger and smoking a cigarette.


Heart disease kills way more people than lung cancer. So the only difference that I can see is that the Cheeseburger is more deadly.

You seem all too happy to tell everyone what they can and can't do and ready with all of the exceptions for the things you personally like.


> So the only difference that I can see is that the Cheeseburger is more deadly.

Eating is a requirement for life, and there is no meaningful way to make a nutritionally complete diet available (especially at "feeding society without devoting your entire GDP to food production and distribution" scales) while making it impossible for people to gain unhealthy amounts of weight. It is fully a sliding scale.

Even the most pro-nicotine people can't argue that smoking is a necessary component of human survival.


Eating junk food isn't

Breathing is a requirement for life and smoking is a category of breathing in the same way that eating soda and candy bars is a category of eating.

I'm not arguing that in good faith. I'm pointing out that your argument doesn't hold up either.


You don’t have to make it impossible to gain weight, but don’t make gaining weight the default choice like it is today.

Reduce the insane amount of sugar, empty carbs, and saturated fats in the food available to an average American, and subsidize vegetables and fruits and whole grains. Incentivize the mass-producing manufacturers to use healthier ingredients.


Yes, just as there's clearly a difference between smoking and vaping. In a sane regulatory world as soon as e-cigarettes became widely available we would have banned legacy cigarettes. Instead we're doing the opposite on the basis of logic-free moralizing.


ever since I signed up for linkedin I get recruiters emailing me at my previous companies email address. There is no reason they should even have that information.


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